therozza wrote:It's unclear to me why interest in this thread appears to have waned.
Is backgammon not still - like skateboarding, and what, I believe, you youngsters call "The Tango" - still "all the rage"? How fleeting fashion is, and how I despair for the youth of today, with their "walkmans" and "longbows" and "the price is right".
Shake it up, baby, now, shake it up baby, as McHammer puts it, right kids?
Anyway, I rolled a double 2 recently.
Didn't help.
Still, mate in 3, I fancy!
A double 2 means that mate can only happen in 7 moves as a minimum, in my calculation of the dice odds.

After that, you can start a thread to complain about the dice; that will be thread #102 that complains about dice.
interest waned? really? Please tell me this is NOT SO..!!..??
Walkmans? really? how about the music APP on their phones?
And do you mean: MC Hammer? You can't touch this..!
Stanley Kirk Burrell (born March 30, 1962), better known by his stage name MC Hammer (or simply Hammer), is an American rapper, songwriter, dancer and record producer who had his greatest commercial success and popularity from the late 1980s until the early 1990s. Remembered for his rapid rise to fame, Hammer is known for songs (such as "U Can't Touch This" and "2 Legit 2 Quit"), flashy dance movements, choreography and eponymous Hammer pants.[1]